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REVIEWING THE NEWS: Sports mega-network merely dribbles discover coverage of blockbuster Knicks-Nuggets NBA change for superstar Carmelo Anthony.

Explain to me how a network that has threesome properties sacred to 24-7 sports programme and highlights, after breathlessly reporting on a story for weeks around the clock, fails to break into previously scheduled airtime for in-depth coverage of said story's actualised resolution.

Having heard via text communication most ex-Denver Nuggets superstart Carmelo suffragist reaching bag to New royalty via a midnight change to the Knicks, I immediately flipped to ESPN's flagship show SportsCenter. It was transmission at the time, and did indicate on its left-screen schedule that content on the care would be reaching soon, but then cut to a pre-taped edition of NFL Live, despite sport being in its offseason. After flipping manically digit channel up to ESPN2, I was dismayed to see still added already-broadcast half-hour of conference chat-fest Sportsnation, which was actually in the interior of a wondering segment from early in the day regarding Anthony's status. Embarrassing. Insult to news-starved injury, the company's ordinal primary sister stations, ESPN News, was re-cycling finished its unceasingly looping Highlight Express, with no real-time gap regarding an NBA transaction that is digit of sports' large punctuation in several years, a large reinvigorating of the sport's cornerstrone franchise, and a boon to the current saga of Miam's Lebron James-Dwayne Wade-fueled efforts to dominate the Eastern Conference. But null crossways the various televised feeds from national cable's allegedly execute competitive-athletics home. Nonsense.

Then again, maybe I'm meet taste because I moved to Maryland from NYC digit life before the change and will woman discover on Melo Mania first-hand. Still, if you're ESPN, and you've been making basketball fans worldwide see endowed in the perennial All-Star's current saga with long pre-packaged hype, then at least shew the inventiveness and journalistic instintcs to sated us erst we're hooked and there's a actual story to report.

ESPN'S FOLLOW-THROUGH ON MELO-REPORTING RATING: Airball/10

CARMELO COMING TO THE KNICKS: Yay!/10

ME BEING HUNDREDS OF MILES FROM ONE OF MY HOME CITY'S GREATEST RECENT SPORT TRIUMPHS: Personal Foul/10

 

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